Highlights It aims to provide income support farmers. Certain exclusions are also listed. New Delhi: Farmers who have been eagerly waiting for the eighth installment of the Prime Minister Kisan Samman Nidhi Scheme (PM-KISAN will get it on the auspicious occasion of Akshaya Tritiya. The government will transfer Rs 2,000 of the eighth installment to the farmers' account Akshaya Tritiya which falls on May 14, a report in the Live Mint said. The last or 7th instalment of PM Kisan was paid on Christmas, December 25, which is also the birth anniversary of former PM Atal Bihari Vajpayee. The Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi (PM-KISAN) Scheme was launched by PM Modi in 2019. The Scheme aims to provide income support to all landholder farmer families across the country with cultivable land, subject to certain exclusions.